One On One #22

     Ps.32:8(Amp) says, "I, the Lord, will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go. I will  counsel you with My eye upon you."

    I'm not looking for general relationship with God. I'm seeking a personal relationship and one on One time with Him. It's one thing to know the general Word of God for His people, but it's wholly different having a personal relationship with Him and know His Word for you. Many believers have never come to know the Voice of the Lord for their own lives. Jesus said, "My sheep know My Voice," in John10:47.

    There are stories all over the air waves about the two hurricanes that hit the south. People were asked, "How did you survive?" Their testimony was, "I heard God's Voice and He told me what to do." Many testimonies from 911 say, "I heard God's Voice telling me not to go to work that morning." Other survivors say, "God gave me directions on how to get out of the building." No doubt, some Christians sadly perished that day and didn't know God's Voice for themselves.

     Did God favor one over another? No. He no doubt, He spoke to all, but some didn't hear His Voice or recognize it. Jesus said about some, "Having ears they don't hear, and having eyes they don't see." They all had eyes and ears, but they weren't in tune with Him. Many don't go beyond being saved and living right, because that's all they've known. This is right and good in God's sight, but He wants to have a personal relationship with His children. Paul tells us in Rom.12:2(Amp), "Be transformed by the renewal of your minds, that you may know what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God for our lives." God has a plan for every child in His family and for our lives. It falls on us to seek and listen to His Voice at all times, so we can all walk in the paths that He prepared for us.

     We're not called to the five-fold ministry, but that doesn't mean we haven't been called to specific things. Listening to God's Voice as He speaks to us in our daily lives, can make the difference between life and death. Many Floridians are deciding whether they will stay or evacuate, in the midst of Hurricane Milton. Hearing from Him could determine whether they stay or go. They must know confidently whose voice they're listening too.

    Even as a Christian, you may certainly to on to be with the Lord in Heaven, but is that what He planned for you? Don't just walk with Him in a general form of religion, but seek to walk with Him as your own Father. Jesus said in, John5:30(Amp), "I only do what I hear My Father say, and I only do what I see My Father do." This is a One on One walk with God and what He desires for us. This relationship is what Jesus came to bring not only to us, but to our Father. This was always the desire of God's Heart. When we ignore the open door into His Presence, grieves His Heart, because He loves us so much. The joy of being Father is lost to Him, when we don't spend time in fellowship with Him and seeking His plan for us.

    In 1John1:3-7(Amp), John writes, "What we have seen, and ourselves heard, we are also telling you, so that you too may realize and enjoy fellowship as partners and partakers with us. And this fellowship that we have which is a distinguishing mark of Christians is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ (the Messiah).  And we are now writing these things to you so that our joy in seeing you included may be full and your joy may be complete. And this is the Message of Promise which we have heard from Him and now are reporting to you; God is Light, and there is no darkness in Him at all, no, not in any way. So if we say we are partakers together and enjoy fellowship with Him. When we live and move in darkness, we are both speaking falsely and do not live and practice the Truth, which the Gospel presents. But if we really are living and walking in the Light, as He Himself is in the Light, we have true, unbroken fellowship with one another, and the Blood of Jesus Christ, His Son cleanses and removes us from all sin and guilt (keeps us cleansed from sin in all its forms and manifestations)."

    Notice, the above scripture doesn't say that they have darkness in them, but "they are in darkness." Many have been taught dark things about God and how He deals with His children. When you walk in the darkness of those things, it's hard to have unbroken fellowship with the Lord, because you don't really know Him. Even while living in exile, John maintained a relationship with God. Remember that John is called, "the disciple Jesus loved." The Light John walked in, is the same Light he writes about, that we might have a distinguishing mark as Christians. This comes by spending time with Him in one on One fellowship.